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REAL SCOOP: Murders stem from Wolf Pack internal conflict
I was working on this weekend story for a few days after learning from sources that Matthew Navas-Rivas was the target of the shooting last January that left a Coquitlam teenager caught in the...
View ArticleProvince seeks to seize cars, cash from Metro gangsters
The B.C. government has filed civil forfeiture challenges against gangsters alleged to be involved in a violent Lower Mainland conflict. Last month, the director of civil forfeiture filed a lawsuit...
View ArticleHead of Vancouver encryption company pleads guilty to racketeering in U.S.
The founder of a Vancouver encryption company that supplied untraceable BlackBerry devices to organized crime groups around the world has pleaded guilty to racketeering in Southern California. Phantom...
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Mom of Red Scorpion gangster still devastated nine years after son's murder
The mother of Red Scorpion gangster Kevin LeClair expressed her devastation at his fatal 2009 shooting in a victim impact statement read in B.C. Supreme Court Thursday. Crown prosecutor Elizabeth...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Ramos pleads guilty to aiding international traffickers
Thanks for your patience during the last few weeks as I have been off of work on leave. I am now back and have some updates on a few cases I have covered previously. For starters, Vince Ramos, who...
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REAL SCOOP: Sentencing hearing for UN gang hitman continues
Cory Vallee was convicted of the first-degree murder of Red Scorpion Kevin LeClair last June, as well as of conspiring to kill the Bacon brothers and others in the RS. But Vallee has not yet been...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Gun violence continues with two Fraser Valley murders
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is probing two new shooting deaths in Mission and Chilliwack. Gang-involved Varinderpal Gill, who was just 19, was shot to death Wednesday about 9 p.m. at...
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Former Vancouver gangster murdered in Mexico after brothers killed in B.C.
For years, former Vancouver gangster Nabil Alkhalil fought to stay in Canada, his adopted country, after being threatened with deportation over a cocaine trafficking conviction. Then he disappeared in...
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REAL SCOOP: Another Alkhalil brother murdered – this time in Mexico
I was off when I heard the news in August about Nabil Alkhalil getting killed in Mexico, five years after he left Canada on a fake passport. I know people have been asking me to do a story on his...
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UN gang hitman deserves extra credit for harsh pretrial conditions: defence
United Nations gang hitman Cory Vallee should get more than eight years credit for the four-plus years he has spent in pretrial custody, his defence lawyer argued at a sentencing hearing Tuesday....
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REAL SCOOP: Vallee should get extra credit for Surrey pretrial conditions
The sentencing hearing for Cory Vallee wrapped up Tuesday with the defence making a case for Vallee to get 2-1 credit for the four years he’s been in pretrial. Any extra credit he gets would only apply...
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Sons of original East End Hells Angel linked to assault of Vancouver police...
Two of three men charged with assaulting a Vancouver police officer Tuesday are sons of an original member of the East End Hells Angels, Postmedia has learned. A Vancouver police officer was taken to...
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REAL SCOOP: Sons of ex-Angel charged with assaulting cop
My colleague Scott Brown had written a story about the beating of a Vancouver Police officer after a Durango was pulled over on Robson Oct. 9. Then I heard from a source that two of those charged are...
View ArticleB.C. government tries to seize limo after alleged sex assault in Vancouver
The B.C. director of civil forfeiture has filed a suit against a limousine owner after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside the vehicle last month. The suit, filed this week at the Victoria...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Another fatal shooting in Surrey
A 30-year-old Surrey man was shot to death in a targeted murder Thursday afternoon. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said the victim, Sumeet Randhawa, was known to police. IHIT media officer,...
View ArticlePolice chiefs say they're ready for cannabis legalization
Police agencies across the country are ready for the legalization of recreational cannabis this week, Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer said Monday. Palmer, speaking as president of the Canadian...
View ArticleNew provincial investigators to enforce illegal cannabis sales
The B.C. government will have a team of 44 special constables around the province to investigate unlicensed cannabis stores. But no enforcement action is expected until more licensed stores are opened,...
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REAL SCOOP: Police release video of suspects in Surrey murder
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team hopes the public can identify suspects in a Surrey murder captured last week on video surveillance footage. Cpl. Frank Jang said Wednesday that detectives...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Targeted slaying in Abbotsford Thursday
The gun violence across the Lower Mainland continued Thursday with a targeted murder in Abbotsford. Sgt. Judy Bird, of the Abbotsford Police Department, said in a news released that police received...
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Abbotsford murder victim was brother of gang boss slain last December
The man shot to death in Abbotsford on Thursday evening is the elder brother of Gavin Grewal, the gang leader murdered in his penthouse apartment last December, Postmedia News has learned. Mandeep...
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